Word: methodist
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Methodist students of Yale University have formed an association to be known as the "Oxford Club." A constitution has been adopted and officers will soon be elected. Dr. Chapman, of the First Methodist Church of New Haven has it in charge...
...Amherst, Washington and Jefferson, and Wesleyan, each six; Dartmouth, Brown, and Hameden-Sidney, each five; Michigan, Virginai, and De Pauw Universities, each four; Bowdoin, Dickinson, Rochester, Bethany and Pennsylvania colleges, each three. Nearly one-half of the number of colleges are non-sectarian. Of the denominational colleges 41 are Methodist Episcopal, 36 Baptist, 24 Presbyterian, 14 Congregational, 9 Christian, 8 Lutheran and 7 Episcopalian. Forty-three of the presidents were educated at the college over which they preside. One hundred and ten of the institutions listed are known as universities...
...Presbyterians. In Pennsylvania there were the University of Pennsylvania and Dickinson College. Of the nine southern colleges, five were in Maryland; they were St. John's College at Annapolis, Georgetown College, now in the District of Columbia, a college at Frederick, the Washington College at Charlestown, and a Methodist college at Abingdon. Virginia had three colleges, William and Mary, Hampden Sidney College, and Washington College, which has since become Washington and Lee University. Lastly in South Carolina, was the College of Charlestown...
...students of the Yale Divinity School have been assigned to assist the various pastors of the city in their mission. Fifty-three have been assigned to Congregationalist pastors, eleven to Methodist, twelve to Baptist, and a number to other denominations. A committee of two from each class have the matter in charge, among whom are Peabody and Means, graduates of Harvard last year. Of the Senior class nine are already preaching and most of the undergraduates are engaged in out side work...
...addition to the regular record, is a long list of calculations based on the figures got from the records, some of which are extremely ingenious if not particularly valuable. One rather interesting fact is that of the whole number of graduates, 31 per cent, have become Methodist Episcopal ministers, and that Wesleyan has given to the world an aggregate of 8,540 years of Methodist preaching. Following the records is a bibliography of 150 pages, which sets forth every book or article written by Wesleyan alumni. The whole book is of about 700 pages, and has been prepared with such...